Capital Indictments Returned In Attacks…Death Penalty A Possibility
A 32-year-old Hillsboro woman charged with killing one daughter and seriously injuring another was officially indicted on capital charges last week.
A Hill County grand jury spent nearly two hours Wednesday morning, August 12, pouring over two large ring binders of evidence in the case against Debra Janelle Jeter.
The end result was capital murder and attempted capital murder indictments on the suspect, according to District Attorney Dan V. Dent.
Hill County 9-1-1 dispatchers received a call from the suspect on the evening of June 5.
She was at an abandoned farm house on Highway 77 just north of Hillsboro.
The caller stated that she had just killed her two daughters, but one of the girls was still alive. She then requested dispatchers to send EMS personnel.
Law-enforcement officials arrived to find 12-year-old Kelsey Leanne Jeter dead, and 13-year-old Kiersten Leigh Jeter suffering from a slash wound to her throat.
She was flown from the scene to a Dallas-area hospital where she underwent emergency surgery for her wounds.
She was released from the hospital the following week in time to attend her sister’s funeral.
The mother had been held on charges of murder and attempted capital murder since being de-tained at the farm house the night of the crimes.
Key to the capital indictments, Dent explained, was the fact that the suspect entered the farm house without permission and then committed the assaults.
Mrs. Jeter has had one official court appearance the last week of June when 66th District Judge F.B. (Bob) McGregor Jr. ordered both a competency and an insanity evaluation to determine her mental state at the time of the crimes.
A lengthy report compiled by Dr. Verl Childers of Itasca was delivered to the district judge Tuesday afternoon, August 11, and was forwarded to the district attor-ney.
Dr. Childers reportedly made three visits to the jail to talk to the suspect before compiling his re-port.
The court-ordered mental evaluation showed Mrs. Jeter is competent to stand trial, according to Dent.
The suspect has been held in the Hill County Law Enforcement Center under suicide watch since her arrest.
Her bonds on the two original charges totaled $1.5 million, which were carried over to the indict-ments, according to Judge McGregor.
Sheriff Jeffrey T. Lyon con-firmed Wednesday afternoon that Mrs. Jeter had made one unsuc-cessful attempt on her life while incarcerated.
The suspect used a strip of cloth torn from a towel to make a noose around her neck Thursday, August 6.
Jail personnel discovered the at-tempt. Hillsboro Fire/Rescue was dispatched, but the suspect wasn’t transported to a medical facility.
She was evaluated by MHMR personnel after the attempt, accord-ing to the sheriff.
The frequency of her checks by jail personnel were stepped up to every five minutes from 15 min-utes, and additional measures have been taken to prevent further at-tempts, the sheriff explained.
Mrs. Jeter is represented by court-appointed attorney Phil Weaver of Whitney. He was in court last week and unavailable for comment about the indictments.
While there had been no official announcement that a capital-murder indictment might be sought in the case, there was a tip during a recent budget workshop conducted by Hill County Commissioners’ Court.
While reviewing the jury-fund line item, County Judge Justin Lewis told court members that a capital trial could be in the county’s future.
Whether to add revenue to the jury fund from reserves to cover the projected costs of such a trial was expected to be considered at a Friday morning, August 14, budget workshop called for commissioners’ court.
Mrs. Jeter could face the death penalty if convicted of capital murder.

I am close to this family and after reading this I believe the world will be a better place when she is dead!

http://jeterfamily.webs.com/

Earth2Amanda519:
They should just let her kill herself

In a perfect world…

RIP Kelsey.

But, the father was worried about his daughters. Two weeks earlier, Jeter had tried to kill herself in front of the girls.

“There was a fire truck and ambulance down there, and they said she had taken some pills,” said Steve Raulston, a neighbor.

According to court documents, she was sent to a mental health hospital temporarily. Her husband asked for custody of the children.

However, it wasn’t the first time there were problems. In 2004, investigators concluded that Jeter physically abused Kiersten, but closed the case after she got mental health help.

There is a picture of the girls with their daddy at the link.

I will pray for you, Kiersten, that you will heal physically, emotionally and mentally! It will be a tough and long road, but you will get there, by the Grace of God…. Your sister, Kelsey, flies with Angels!!

Lyon said Debra Jeter and her husband, Lee Jeter had separated, and that he was awarded temporary custody. Lyon said when Debra Jeter picked up the girls for visitation, she told her husband she had a surprise for the girls.

Details are somewhat sketchy, but Debra Jeter reportedly drove the girls from Hillsboro to Corsicana, and on the way back to Hillsboro, she looked for vacant houses.

She reportedly found a sprawling and empty 3,000-square-foot house on a hill at 215 State Highway 77, where she told police she killed her daughters.

Deputies at the scene found Debra Jeter standing outside holding a knife.

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Kiersten Jeter remains at Parkland Hospital in Dallas in stable condition, officials said.

Lyon said that Debra Jeter had attempted suicide about three weeks earlier at her house, and she was admitted to Heart of Texas Region MHMR in Waco, where she was treated until recently.

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Lyon said since her arrest, Debra Jeter hasn’t spoke to anyone.

Link

Debra’s Myspace
Kelsey’s Myspace

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